Shimazu Hisamitsu

Shimazu Hisamitsu (28 November 1817-6 December 1887), also called Shimazu Saburo, was a daimyo who was the ruler of the Satsuma Domain.

Biography
Hisamitsu was born in Kagoshima in 1817 and was briefly adopted by the Tanegashima Domain, but was returned to his family at a young age. During the 1849 Oyura Disturbance, he was supported as heir to the Shimazu and the Satsuma Domain, but his half-brother Shimazu Nariakira won the dispute. In 1858, after Nariakira's death, Hisamitsu's son Shimazu Tadayoshi became the new daimyo and in 1861 he returned to the main Shimazu house.

After an incident in which he killed two British men for disrespecting him in 1862, Hisamitsu professed his hatred for foreigners and joined in the Imperial rebellion against the Tokugawa Shogunate in the Boshin War. After the Meiji Restoration, he retired.